A swimmer jumps into the water near Maiden's Tower in Istanbul, Turkiye on Sunday, as Europe's deadly heat wave pushed east, with millions of people sweltering across the continent. YASIN AKGUL/AFP
The director-general of the World Health Organization has said more than 1,300 deaths recorded across Europe since June 21 can be linked to the extreme heat conditions that have affected the continent in recent days.
"Heat stress is often called the 'silent killer'," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X. "European homes, workplaces and schools were not built for these temperatures."
After the United Kingdom and France suffered particularly high temperatures last week, with around 1,000 more deaths than expected reported in France between Wednesday and Sunday, the weather front seems to be moving east.
A weather station in the German town of Coschen, near the border with Poland, recorded a third consecutive day of record temperatures on Sunday, with a reading of 41.7 C.
